Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-26 Thread Petr Vorel
Hi Adrian, > > Interesting behaviour :-). So the problem is somewhere in > > btrfs_scan_devices() [1], [2]. > > Are you avare about any bug report of this behavior? I haven't found it in > > btrfs-progs > > issues list [3] nor in kernel bugzilla BTRFS issues. > No, I never bothered reporting it

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/26/2018 02:52 AM, Petr Vorel wrote: >> As for btrfs: The filesystem detection code is just plain stupid. > > Interesting behaviour :-). So the problem is somewhere in > btrfs_scan_devices() [1], [2]. > Are you avare about any bug report of this behavior? I haven't found it in > btrfs-progs

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Petr Vorel
Hi Adrian, > I've seen that on my Amiga 4000 as well. > The problem is that btrfs tries to determine whether a block device is > a hard drive or not and if the block device driver misses a certain > flag (e.g. removable) it will just scan forever. > In the case of my Amiga, the btrfs module was

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Sean Whitney
On 01/25/2018 04:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 01/26/2018 01:13 AM, James Clarke wrote: It' will stay like this for days Actually looking back through my backups, I reinstalled sparc64 in March 2017, and the btrfs packages are included in the next backup. These have been i

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Sean Whitney
On 01/25/2018 04:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 01/26/2018 01:13 AM, James Clarke wrote: It' will stay like this for days Actually looking back through my backups, I reinstalled sparc64 in March 2017, and the btrfs packages are included in the next backup. These have been i

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/26/2018 01:13 AM, James Clarke wrote: >> It' will stay like this for days >> >> Actually looking back through my backups, I reinstalled sparc64 in March >> 2017, and the btrfs packages are included in the next backup. These have >> been installed all along, but the timeout behavior mus

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread James Clarke
On 26 Jan 2018, at 00:10, Sean Whitney wrote: > On 01/25/2018 04:03 PM, James Clarke wrote: >> On 25 Jan 2018, at 23:58, Sean Whitney wrote: >>> >>> I recently switched from sparc to sparc64 using the cdrom drive in >>> September. Sometime in the last two weeks the server rebooted and when it

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Sean Whitney
yes, I've tried passing in init=/bin/bash but, it still trys to process the btrfs filesystem before a prompt is available. The boot process hangs here: [ 44.070355] raid6: int64x1 xor()43 MB/s [ 44.190108] raid6: int64x2 gen() 125 MB/s [ 44.310194] raid6: int64x2 xor()62 MB/s

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread James Clarke
On 25 Jan 2018, at 23:58, Sean Whitney wrote: > > I recently switched from sparc to sparc64 using the cdrom drive in September. > Sometime in the last two weeks the server rebooted and when it tried to > restart it hung trying to find a btrfs filesystem, which I don't have. This > seems to b